George Madison Adams Quotes

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

George Madison Adams

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• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Professional

• January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Time
  • Live
  • Career

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Band
  • Feel

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Writing
  • Matter
  • Page

• Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cute

• He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• So that's life, then: things are they are? It picks its way on the blue guitar. A million people on one string? And all their manner in the thing, And all their manner, right and wrong, And all their manner, weak and strong? And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Life
  • Strong

• The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

  

  Bob Ehrlich

• Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

  

  Andrew Coyle Bradley
  • Character
  • Moral

• Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Meaningful

• Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Change
  • Worth

• Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Opportunity
  • Equality
  • Advantage

• When I go home, I still have to clean my room; I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Home
  • She
  • Mom

• It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

  

  George Madison Adams
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational
  • Disgrace